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Recent Examples of alarmist
Amodei does have plenty of critics in Silicon Valley who call him an AI alarmist.
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Nichole Marks, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
Some parents call his rhetoric alarmist, and other researchers argue that his evidence isn’t strong enough to draw social media as the correlation behind the youth mental health epidemic.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Of course, writing critically about AI without sounding alarmist is difficult.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Some of the advice here about kidnapping is a little extreme so don’t go down that alarmist route.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
The hype cycle has careened straight into doomsday-prepper territory where the voices are loud, alarmist, and largely missing the plot.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
In response, concerned scientists quickly tried to counter these alarmist takes, directing people’s attention to the caveats, the uncertainties, the limitations.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Nichole Marks, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
Some parents call his rhetoric alarmist, and other researchers argue that his evidence isn’t strong enough to draw social media as the correlation behind the youth mental health epidemic.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Of course, writing critically about AI without sounding alarmist is difficult.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Some of the advice here about kidnapping is a little extreme so don’t go down that alarmist route.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
The hype cycle has careened straight into doomsday-prepper territory where the voices are loud, alarmist, and largely missing the plot.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
In response, concerned scientists quickly tried to counter these alarmist takes, directing people’s attention to the caveats, the uncertainties, the limitations.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alarmist
Noun
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In Africa, extremists exploit ungoverned water scarcity to recruit and control populations.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil-rights group, has designated Tuberville as an anti-Muslim extremist based on past statements.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Fortune,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The London punk rebels seized the revolutionary spirit of 1977 with their raw manifesto The Clash, then refined their sound with the flawed Give ‘Em Enough Rope.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
9 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile, over in Britain, a vibrant antiwar movement brought on motion after motion in Parliament to cease fire and end all offensive operations against the rebels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Fishing with his father and grandfather was a welcome release, but school brought out his inner troublemaker.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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The show, set in Chicago, starred O’Neill as women’s shoe salesman Al Bundy, Sagal as his wife Peggy, Applegate as not-so-bright daughter Kelly and Faustino as troublemaker son Bud.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In 1989, the public came out to mourn the death of a reformist leader, Hu Yaobang; these gatherings evolved into the Tiananmen Square protest, which China brutally crushed.—
Timothy McLaughlin,
The Atlantic,
13 Dec. 2025
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This makes Lebanon the only Arab country with a Christian head of state, a tradition that continued earlier this year when President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and a Cabinet were elected on reformist platforms and vowed to hold those behind the port explosion to account.—
Molly Hunter,
NBC news,
2 Dec. 2025
Noun
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While many are now driven primarily by economic interests, a subset retains insurgent, ant-imperialist commitments.—
Rebecca Hanson,
The Conversation,
6 Jan. 2026
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That could mean tightening sanctions on remaining power brokers, expanding strikes against security installations and militias, covertly supporting insurgent factions, and using Maduro’s prospective trial as a global stage on which to delegitimize Chavismo once and for all.—
Robert Muggah,
Fortune,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Grand Blanc attack was mentioned briefly on Saturday, Oct 4, at the start of the two-day conference by Elder Gary Stevenson, one of 12 apostles who help lead the church's 17.5 million members worldwide, almost 47,000 of them in Michigan.—
Niraj Warikoo,
Freep.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Nelson served as an apostle beginning in 1984 and became the church's leader in 2018.—
Mitch Picasso,
FOXNews.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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But proponents of the industry claim that the environmental costs still net out as a plus since the space data centers take processing off the fossil-fuel-burning grid.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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One of the biggest proponents of the capri resurgence, the supermodel has been making a stylish case for cropped pants since last summer—and her latest iteration takes the divisive Noughties silhouette into Italian girl style territory.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Alarmist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarmist. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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